Judges

judgesThe Book of Judges tells the story of the 12 hero’s raised up to keep Israel on the straight and narrow between the time of their entry into Canaan and the arrival of Samuel the last hero judge and the anointer of David the King. After telling the stories of the Judges, the book concludes with a  run of ugly incidents which phraseology and chara
cters indicate actually occurred towards the beginning of the book chronologically,  these cover the creating of a silver idol, the corruption of a Levite to serve it as priest, then the capture of the idol and priest to serve the whole tribe of Dan who have been conquering territory outside of  the promised land. Then a Levites concubine is gang-raped and dies by some Benjaminites, leading to civil war. Despite being out of sequence these incidents help draw the point at the conclusion of the book, that the period of the judges was a violent and relatively lawless period.

The posts below though help draw out the light of revelation hidden in their pages.

Samson – whose greatest victory was his death.

This is the final post in the series of seven on how the seven national saviours in the Book of ...
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Jephtha's Daughter by George Hicks

Jephthah – fulfilled vows and family tragedy!

The Bible is always brutally honest about its heroes (and of course its villans), often more honest than we feel ...
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Gideon – a fine fella’

Gideon's story is a more involved one than any of the saviour-judges we have looked at so far in this ...
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Shamgar – turns an insult into a symbol of power.

For the fourth post in this series tracing the way the seven saviour-judges of Israel prefigure Jesus, The Saviour-Judge. We ...
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Deborah, the first prophet in the promised land

This is the third post in a mini-series tracing the way the seven saviour-judges of Israel prefigure Jesus, The Saviour-Judge. YHWH ...
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Ehud the lefty and Eglon the hefty!

This is the second post in a mini-series tracing the way the seven saviour-judges of Israel prefigure Jesus, The Saviour-Judge ...
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Othniel wins a bride and releases springs of water

So this is the first proper post on a mini-series on how the 7 saviour-judges (from the full list of ...
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Seven saviours in the twelve judges

This is the introduction post to a new series highlighting how seven judges in the book of judges are actually ...
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